Cover flow vs now playing

I've had my iPod touch for about a day now and in general I am impressed with the technology. Like others I use my iPod in the car and have contemplated cover flow landscape mode as the default orientation. However I've noticed that cover flow does not stay in sync with what's playing when the playing song leaves the album displayed onthe flow. Just tip it up and back to landscape and its play until the next album. You can guess how quickly it gets out of sync when it I'd on song shuffle.
Anyone else? Perhaps apple can fix this in the next code release. Along with loosening their tight controls on what we can do on the device.

I'm with you Mike. I'd love to be able to hit Shuffle Songs, sit my Touch in the little plastic cradle thingy, and have Cover Flow change when the song changes (just like it does in iTunes).
The album art stays in sync in portrait mode but you can't sit the Touch in the plastic cradle in portrait mode because the earphones jack is on the bottom.
I tried sitting it in the dock that came with my 4th Gen iPod and hooking the earphones into the line out jack but found that there was no way of controlling the volume (maybe I need a newer Dock?).
So at the moment I'm listening to Silverchair and looking at Jet. Hmmm.

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